"To beguile the time, look like the..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue.
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“There's such divinity doth hedge a kingThat treason can but peep to what it would.”
“This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity.”
“There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.”
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“Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.”
“Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!”
“The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”